{"id":3989,"date":"2008-01-25T07:56:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T07:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:36:34","slug":"a-bad-omen-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3989","title":{"rendered":"A bad omen: the NY Times agrees with me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sort of, as they endorse Senator Clinton forthe Democratic nomination and Senator McCain forthe Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>I favor Clinton because I think she&#8217;s less likely to damage the country then Obama or Edwards. And McCain is my second choice, but first choice Thompson has dropped out. <\/p>\n<p>I found reading the editorials to be nauseating, so I&#8217;m not going to excerpt; here they are if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/25\/opinion\/25fri1.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th&amp;oref=slogin\"><strong>Primary Choices: Hillary Clinton &#8211; New York Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/25\/opinion\/25fri2.html?th&amp;emc=th\"><strong>Primary Choices: John McCain &#8211; New York Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my lifetime the NYT has never endorsed a Republican for president, and there&#8217;s no doubt they won&#8217;t break their string this time around. The editorial extolling Mrs. Clinton is twice as long as the editorial on McCain as the best of a bad field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sort of, as they endorse Senator Clinton forthe Democratic nomination and Senator McCain forthe Republicans. I favor Clinton because I think she&#8217;s less likely to damage the country then Obama or Edwards. And McCain is my second choice, but first choice Thompson has dropped out. I found reading the editorials to be nauseating, so I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5229,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}